If you'd like to get into some channel cat fishing like that, there's only one way that I know of. Get in your car and drive the 625 miles to Drayton or above. The farther North you go, the bigger they get. You'll love it!

Catching a 20 lber around here is like winning the lottery. It's hard enough to catch a 15. Many a guy can fish their whole life and never do it. Up there it's pretty routine.

This is my 2nd year up there, and my father-in-law has made 12 or 15 trips. We don't use a guide and never have. If you fish out of a boat and just keep moving and probing with quality bait I can almost guarantee you'll catch fish. We caught them in 33 feet of water, 15, 10, and 6 feet. You can literally pick almost any place in the river and have a shot of catching a hog.

We used leopard frogs, cut mooneye, suckers and cut suckers, and bugeye shrimp. They all work well. The cut mooneye was the hottest bait in my boat.